/usr/local

Andrew Flegg andrew at bleb.org
Wed Dec 30 14:25:34 EET 2009


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:23, Thomas Tanner <tanner at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Is there any good reason why Maemo does not follow the standard UNIX
> layout with user applications in /usr/local ?
> /usr/local seems to be in all search paths and if /usr/local
> would be just a symlink to /home/local there would be no need
> for further symlink tricks.

Short version: most packages will install to /usr rather than
/usr/local, so there'd have to be build changes either way.

HTH,

Andrew

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